Poem A Day

Fragment: 'Wake the Serpent Not'

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wake the serpent not--lest he

Should not know the way to go,--

Let him crawl which yet lies sleeping

Through the deep grass of the meadow!

Not a bee shall hear him creeping,

Not a may-fly shall awaken

From its cradling blue-bell shaken,

Not the starlight as he's sliding

Through the grass with silent gliding.

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